Hi, Le 2024-12-13 13:38, IOhannes m zmölnig a écrit :
and *of course* all usernames have been normalized to lowercase ASCII.
I just took a look at some reasonably recent government-issued IDs and it turns out the French ones normalized my name to uppercase whatever-some-clerk-had-on-their-typewriter-keyboard-late-last-millenium, dropping the accent from the second word of my name. My father's birth certificate is handwritten and has the accent. My Canadian IDs are better as they retained the name as I wrote it in in the application form. I don't remember if the french online application forms for IDs allowed accents in names but I would not be too surprised if they didn't. I might start a procedure to try to get that officially fixed in 2025, as there is another issue with the way my name is registered with some administrations that occasionnally complicates my life. I'm pretty confident the other issue will get fixed, much less the accent one though the law should be on my side which here means that I could well sue the government, win the lawsuit and the subsequent ones up to the ECJ and back and still not get that fixed within my lifetime.
I was going to write that on payment cards you can't have accents in your name. Wrong. I managed to get one that reproduced it. I don't use that one much online so I don't know if entering my name with the accent actually works somewhere when paying with that card.
I would not try too hard to get non-ascii characters in that convenient computer identifier often named "login name" rather than "user name". You can't get them in the local part of an e-mail address and not many people complain. You can't get them in IRC nicknames. You can't get them in the machine readable part of your IATA-compliant government-issued IDs. It's still better than just numbers. I'm fine with that as long as my name is properly written in the places that actually matter.
If you need a name for that option, --allow-non-ascii should be neutral enough.
-- Julien Plissonneau Duquène
